martes, 26 de abril de 2016

Today, I would
like explain our new challenge. We were asked to create a rubric of evaluation
in order to assess our collaborative e- projects. As you know, we were working
on it last week, therefore now we have to evaluate them. If you want to know
about our e- project, clickhere and you will have the whole process that we had to
follow last week.

Related to this
task , I have to say that, as a teachers, assessment is one of the most
important and complicated things. It is
not easy to decide when a task is successfully achieved or not, or even if it
could be improved. Therefore, working on
creating a rubric in order to evaluate students is a suitable way to organize
their process. Taking into account my previous reflection, creating a rubric of
evaluation about our e-projects is the perct way to be aware of the things that
we have to imporve, in order to have a better results.

In order to
achieve this new challenge I decided to
use the online tool “Quick Rubric”. ”. Before that, I had a look at different tools but
I chose this one beacuse it is really easy to use. As it is a online tool, you
have to log in it first.

Once you have your
account, you will be ready to create your personal rubrics! Here is an example
of what you will find.

As you can see,
this tool allow you to give a score rating for evaluating the e- project. In
order to make the schore balanced you have to bear in mind the number of
criteria/ topics that you are going to evaluate and the number of levels for
scoring.

In order to edit
the rubric, you just have t fill the gaps with the information that you
consider relevant. You can add columns and rows as well as delate them easily.
Once you consider you have your rubric completed you only have to save it, and
it will be automaticately saved in your account. Added to that you have other
options such us: share, print or copy it. And the most important think is that,
as it is a online tool you are allow to modify it whatever you want. However,
this tool does not allows you to have and embed code in order to share it,
you are just allow to share the URL of
the rubric.

Apart from the
lack of emeded code, I highly recommend this tool as it simple and intuitive.
You can create your own rubrics taking into account the goals you want your
students achieve.

Having said that,
here is my rubric. I hope it will be useful to evaluate any
project!

viernes, 22 de abril de 2016

Due to the World
Book day, our next challenge was related to this celebration. In order to
achieve this mission we were asked to present a poster about the kind of reader
we are and then, add a brief video clip/ audio track to the picture through the
app Aurasma.

To begin with, I
used the online tool Picktochartto create my poster. As you know, in my
previous challenge I use Canva in order to create our collaborative
infographic, so I decided to choose another one. Picktochart provied you plenty of opportunities to create
attractive and eye- catching posters. The only problem with this online tool is
that many of the poster formats are not free. Anyway, I got a great result!

The next step for
this misson was to create a video/ audio clip explaining what kind of books I
like, my favourite one and finally, the
characteristics that define me as a reader. To create it, I used Movie Maker,
where I added the poster that I did with a record of my voice explaining all
this aspects.

Regarding with
Movie Maker, It is a really intuitive as well as easy. It allow you to edit
your own videos adding pictures, records, songs, videos and so on.

Finally, we were
asked to sing up in Aurasma and downloaded it in our smart phones in order to
achive the challenge.

This step was easy
for me as I had worked on this app in my previous challenge, where my peers and
I created a tutorial about how to use this application. If you clickhereyou
can see how to use Aurasma step by step.

Once I completed my
mission I have to say that Aurasma is an amazing tool were you can work on 3D
in an easy way! I have to say that at the beging I was little afraid about it
and I though I would not be able to achive it.

Here you have my
final task, but first, you have to follow me on Aurasma: magayarr, otherwhise I
will not work!. Now, you are ready to see my new creation with this app. Focus
on the image and it will appear!

domingo, 17 de abril de 2016

In
order to achieve this challege we had to imagine that we were pitching a movie
idea to a director. Therefore, in teams, we had to complete a storbyoard for a
short vido challenge that we recorded
later.

First
of all, we had to think of the goal and then the tool that we would like to use
in order to create the storyboard.

Our
main goal when we started to think about the video was to make children reflect
on their surroundings, sepecillay, about thier neighborhood, so that we though
to create a video challenge using different scenes in which a child could be
seen involved. In order to organize all
the information that came to our minds, we decided to use a storyboard
template with a lot of details such us: characters, dialogue, scenery and so
on.

Once
we had our story board done, was the time to record our video. Taking
advantages of the story board that we had done beforehand, we did not spend to
much time thinking of what we were going to do or say during the record. In
order to create or video challenge, we use Imovie. I highly recommend this tool
to create videos as it contain many features as: music, videos, images and so
on. Imovie is a simply, easy and intuitive tool with amazing result! Therefore,
it fitted with our challenge.

After
using it, we consider that, Imovie could be use with students in clas as well.
They would have the opportunity to use their imaginations as well as develop
their oral skills.

Having
said that, here you have the result of our video challenge.

Added to that, our storyboard as well as our vide challenge are goint to be part of a natinowide educational collaborative project which is called The ESL Time, so I feel really excited. We are having the opportunity to spread to the world our ideas and projects!. Apart from that we were given an award for having participated in this collaborative project!

For this challenge we were asked to create a
collaborative screencast about a CLIl goal that fits
with our e- project, added to support learners when they are using ICT tools,
por example.

In order to accomplish this mission we all got
an agreement that it would be a fantastic idea to explain our children how to
use the app Aurasma as we have use it to create our infographic.

Once we had the idea, we were looking for a web
tool that support that we would like to explain, and finally we come across
with sScreencast- O- Matic. This is an intuitive, visual and online tool that
allow you to create tutorial videos with
screen shoots with a high quality of sound, as well as of image.

I have to say that we spent just 2 minutes to
know how it works so it was perfect!.Once, we finished our tutorial, we had the
opportunity to share it on youtube.

I consider that, using tutorial videos in class in order to explain any activity
they have to achieve is something really useful as it allows children to learn on their own pace
as well as be more independent learners.
Apart from that, children can also use it to explain to their peers how
they have achieve some activitiy.

Added to that, this is going to be part of the "AporTICs " nationwide collaborative project. Therefore, our artifact will be published in their blog!

Last
7 th of April, my peers and I had the pleasure to participate in a
collaborative project calledChococharlas. Chococharlas is a educative community that organize online
meetings in different plataforms such as Youtube. People can participate
sharing their ideas, suggestions about and educative topic. The only requirement
is that, people have to eat sweets while they are discussing a topic!

We
were challenged by our teacher to being part of a chococharla about CLIL and ,
once it has been done I have to say that it was really funny and we all were
really motivated with this idea. We had
to work on it previously in order to get possitive results, but we did it with enthusiasm!

Whitin
each group we were assigned different roles.

Neus
and Álvaro were the speakers in the chocotalk, giving opinions and sugguestions
about the topics.

Paula
y Mara were the content curators, resposible for writing a summary about the
chocotalk, including the main ideas that were proposed.

I was the dissseminator, that´s
means that I had to spread to the world the chococharla through different
social networks such us facebook or instagram. During the live event, I had to
write tweets, so everybody could read what was going on!, using the hashtags:
#chococharlas, #ictclil_urjc. I have to say that as my peers did it really good
performance, I found difficult write tweets that summarized what they were
talking about! All the contenct was
really interested!.

Here
you have a summary of the most important aspects of the chocotalk. This
magnificate work has been made for the content curators of my group. So, have a
look here:

If you are interested in it, h ere you can enjoy the whole chocotalk

Once the chocotalk finished, the educative community gave us an award because of our participation

For this challenge, we were asked to work in teams in order to create a collaborative e- project. This mission has been enriching for myself as I had to bear in mind the different points of views of my peers as well as to get an agreement with them in some cases. Sharing our knowledges not only about CLIL but also about the different tools that we can use to achieve this challenge has been something fantastic! As we wanted to be organized, we decided to establish a role for each component of the group, so it was de distribution in my team:

Coordinator:@Alvaro_Gope

Supervisor: @Marta_Gayarre

Secretaries: @22paau @maradomingezgo

Speaker: @nepeuspu

Once we had the roles assigned we started to think about our collaboratieve CLIL e- project, taking into account our initial topics. My group and I decided to create a project with the purpose that children know their neighborhood in terms of recycling, public transport, facilities that it offers, different kind of shops, heritage and so on. So we designed different activities that can be carried out with children.
In order to spread to the world the purpose of our project, we were asked to create an infographic. It has been a fantastic way to present our ideas related to the project.

Our goal with this infographic has been to give a clue about the topic. In order to discover more about how it is going to be carried out we decided to include the app of Aurasma. That is why we create a video to explain biefly the contents that children are going to work on.
After having a look at different tools such as Genially, Piktochart.com, infogr.am, we have decided to use Canva because it has more resources to create an infographic. The disadvantage of this tool is that only few things are free, but with imagination, you can create your own template.
Once we had created our infographic, we had the opportunity to submit our team digital articat to the InfoEdugraphics nationwide collaborative blog and then, they published it in thier blog, giving us an award because of our participation.